Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread Hodgins Family
> I've seen several warnings now about making sure to change "testing" to > "etch" in /etc/apt/sources.lst once Etch goes stable. (For testing > purposes I've just always left it "etch".) But what if what I want is > to keep our machines at "testing"? It seems to have the latest and > groovi

Re: OT: Etch/testing sources

2007-02-12 Thread Hodgins Family
> This puzzles me. I've been running etch/testing since shortly after > Sarge went stable. I made sure to edit sources.lst to make sure it > points to testing, and not etch, so I can continue to receive the > latest packages after Etch goes stable. What happens to testing when > it becomes Lenny? I

Re: Multiple copies (was Re: howto for setting ...)

2007-01-29 Thread Hodgins Family
> > Anybody else get 3 copies of this? > > I've gotten 2 copies of some list emails for the past couple of days. Oh, well then. Lucky me! I got to read it 3 times. Guess I win. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: howto for setting up an debian home network router

2007-01-29 Thread Hodgins Family
On Mon, 2007-29-01 at 18:02 +, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:13, Kristian Lampen wrote: > > I have not found a > > suitable HOWTO or tutorial for this task. > > May be because there is no need to provide a tutorial for such a simple thing. > Dealing for five yea

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-28 Thread Hodgins Family
> I use a Netgear RP614v2, but don't like it. > > The Linux geek fave is the Linksys WRT54GL, since it runs Linux and > can be upgraded with 3rd-party binaries. It's a wireless access > port, but also has 4 RJ45 jacks and has a firewall. US$54 at Newegg. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-28 Thread Hodgins Family
> Firewalling routers are $50 and do a reasonably > good job. Any recommendations? What are you using? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installsand security

2007-01-27 Thread Hodgins Family
> to create a default set of rules that would work for many people. The default set of rules only needs to get people through the installation safely. After that, they can alter them with their favourite program, as needed. The rules here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/a

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-26 Thread Hodgins Family
> Did you *read* the link you posted? Yes, I've read/seen this Appendix F section in various versions. Up until the last version that I read (version 3.10 of last November) there has been a "FIXME: test this setup to see if it works properly." Didn't exactly inspire me to use it as an aid for net

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-26 Thread Hodgins Family
Many people are installing Debian "from the internet". Yet, the Securing Debian Manual suggests no contact with the internet until the installation is "secure." The manual states that installing the OS off the web is not the best idea (Section 3.3 found here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/secu

Re: Debian on Toshiba 2500CDS?

2007-01-16 Thread Hodgins Family
On Tue, 2007-16-01 at 12:15 -0800, Mitchell Verter wrote: > I just got a great deal on a Toshiba 2500CDS: > > The seller told me that he does not know the user/password. Is there > a > way to crack this? Are you asking about a BIOS password, a Windows password or is there already a Linux OS on t

Re: Swapping archives between similar debian PC?

2007-01-05 Thread Hodgins Family
> I want to give the packages from > my fast work internet connected PC to my slow connected home PC. This link discusses one way of doing that! http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-7455.html Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Hodgins Family
> > > >> Scribus is probably your best bet for actually importing a PDF in any > >> friendly way -- I think they were at least working on that, not sure if it > >> is really usable > >> > > > > Hmm... never heard of it. Looks interesting. I don't know how to make it > > read PDF, tho. >

Re: Dual boot on Dell X300

2006-10-17 Thread Hodgins Family
A suggestion. Check your BIOS settings to make sure USB boot is at the top of the boot order. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dual boot on Dell X300

2006-10-17 Thread Hodgins Family
> have two drives, /dev/hda that holds Etch (/dev/hda1) and /dev/sda that > holds Sarge (/dev/sda1). Both drives have swap space and grub and fstab > have the correct entries. Grub is installed on the MBR of /dev/hda and > the menu.lst resides in /boot/grub/. > I'm curious here. Etch is on an

Re: Music lovers! Cakewalk?

2006-09-27 Thread Hodgins Family
On Wed, 2006-27-09 at 07:11 -0400, Henry Sobotka wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > I've a co-worker I'm trying to convert to Linux. He's a musician, and > > his primary app in $REDMOND is something called cakewalk. I've no > > idea what that is (I'm not a musician). Is there anything in the > > Lin

Re: Version numbers? (WAS Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions)

2006-08-14 Thread Hodgins Family
> How can I find out what version number KDE would call this > Debian "kde" package? OR, how could I find out what version > number Debian would call KDE 3.5.4? > > I suspect the same situation exists with other packages, so I'm > hoping for a general procedure I can follow, not simply the > answ

Re: help with upgrade from woody to sarge...

2006-08-09 Thread Hodgins Family
On Wed, 2006-09-08 at 08:08 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:23:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > Go to another machine and Make yourself a GRUB boot CD (or, if you > > prefer, a boot floppy). You can boot from the GRUB CD, and then repair > > your system. Ev

Re: A question about chatting

2006-07-16 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! On Sun, 2006-16-07 at 16:19 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi, Debian users. > > My sister wants to chat with MS Windows users who use a chat > program called `messenger'. > Can she do that using Debian GNU/Linux, and will any IRC client > be fine? A command line tool would be bette

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Hodgins Family
> > > > Where did you get that logo? When it came up on the > > gnome desktop it immediatlely reminded me of > > something being flushed down the drain. I hope it > > doesn't mean that! > > Actually, the logo is a logarithmic spiral, which has > the interesting property that it employs what th

Re: [OT] Python programmer resource center

2006-05-28 Thread Hodgins Family
On Sun, 2006-28-05 at 08:24 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > I am writting down a pege with useful links for a Python programmer. > > That is reference, tutorials and anything that can be useful. I use it > > regulary when programming in Python and I can't do without it.

Re: [OT] Current Consensus: Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-05-03 Thread Hodgins Family
Ingredients for a thread that won't die. 2 Dozen Broccoli Growers A heavy dose of green color 1 Social Contract 1 smidgen of "how do you address somebody..." Politics (to taste) 1 dash of "I don't want to be CCd" 50 requests to Unsubscribe Stir. Add some light Colour if it still doesn't look ri

Re: OT: Preposition at end [Was: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]]

2006-05-01 Thread Hodgins Family
On Mon, 2006-01-05 at 11:32 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > (And speaking of Freedom, anyone ever heard of that newfangled OS, > > Debian? I hear it's the Hots, baby. ;-) ) > > > > Vaporware. It's just a ploy to delay people from adopting Vista. :-) > > -Roberto

Re: OT: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]

2006-04-30 Thread Hodgins Family
On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 11:21 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Hodgins Family wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 08:26 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > >>Kent West wrote: > >> > >>>Being people, even Debianistas sometimes get off-topic and on-soapbox. >

Re: OT: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]

2006-04-30 Thread Hodgins Family
On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 11:21 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Hodgins Family wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 08:26 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > >>Kent West wrote: > >> > >>>Being people, even Debianistas sometimes get off-topic and on-soapbox. >

Re: OT: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]

2006-04-30 Thread Hodgins Family
On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 08:26 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Being people, even Debianistas sometimes get off-topic and on-soapbox. > When I sent that message, Thunderbird's spell-checker flagged > "Debianistas" as "Lesbianism's". > > Huh?!! > > ;-) Which begs a question! Why do pe

Re: Treason?

2006-04-28 Thread Hodgins Family
On Fri, 2006-28-04 at 10:21 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Could someone explain this syslog message to me? It's evidently from a > bittorrent session. > > Apr 28 08:07:28 mnr kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer > 203.156.176.100:4126/23047 shrinks window 191100048:191101508. Repaired. > > -- >

Re: How to install .deb package as non-root user?

2006-04-15 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! > How can one install .deb package as non-root user? I see a 'dpkg --root' > parameter, but it doesn't seem to help (as per below). Couldn't you work something out using sudo? In Ubuntu folks run commands like: sudo dpkg . Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-15 Thread Hodgins Family
So, why do people in Greece put a γ in colour? On Sat, 2006-15-04 at 11:45 -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: > Not to drift too far from all this fascinating political speculation > but it looks like we have Noah Webster to thank for the American > spelling of the word color. > "French (or indirect

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Hodgins Family
Hey, theo! On Wed, 2006-12-04 at 06:49 +0200, theo wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hodgins Family wrote: > > The short answer is that the French made us do it! > > > > Sorry for that. > > (I also plead guilty for centre/center,

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Hodgins Family
Okay that was fun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? Here is an explanation from http://open-dictionary.com/Color (Can't vouch for how truthful this is...wasn't there at the time) [Co-lor] /_/ 1)... Alternative Spelling of * colour (UK Engl

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Hodgins Family
Howdy and glad you asked! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? The answer is "Why don't you put a u in the word colour?" ;) Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: טכנאי מחשבים בח ינם

2006-04-04 Thread Hodgins Family
Right to left...What was I thinking! That explained everything! Mike McCarty wrote: Matt Richards wrote: i dont understand :( It's Hebrew. Just read from right to left :-) compix wrote: המחשב מקולקל ? עם וירוסים ? איטי? אל תחכו שהוא ייהרס לגמרי הזמינו היום טכנאי שיציל לכם את המחשב, ייעל

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Hodgins Family
Hi Phillipe: One issue that comes up is the way Ubuntu uses the sudo command. During installation, newcomers (with prior experience in Linux) are caught off guard when they are not asked to set up a root account and password. It can be unnerving. A root password CAN be set up, though. And task

Re: Best Linux Laptop

2006-03-22 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! So what we really need is a strictly Debian live CD. Are there any? AFAIK damnsmalllinux is Debian on a bootable CD http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/packages.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REPOST: DSL/Networking Help

2006-03-12 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning. Just got my SBC DSL package with a 2Wire 1701 HG Gateway, wireless router/DSL modem. I need 2 wireless adaptors to complete the network hookup. Googled til I about to shoot myself as I don't know/understand all the rhetoric. I just need to know the brand, model, chipset of a linux

Re: Upgrading from slink on 486 w/ 32 Mb ram and 3c509tp NIC

2006-03-06 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! > > The sarge hardware probe doesn't find the nic though. Debian site > > doesn't seem to have the old version iso's for a gradual upgrade > > process. Anyone able to advise? Sorry, got into this list late and lost the original post! Old version iso's "for a gradual upgrade" ca

Re: Installing Debian from a DOS partition

2006-02-09 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! Hello List, I recently got my hands on a Toshiba Libretto 110CT. Which is a very small laptop, with no cd player, just a pcmcia floppy disk that only works under DOS, because the Linux kernel does not have the drivers for it. I've finally been able to upload files to and from th

Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)

2006-01-23 Thread Hodgins Family
Hey Michelle! I am creating a TByte Archive Server of Debian and I am searching for older Official Debian-CD-Images. Generaly I am looking for 2.2.r7 but yours 2.2r5 are better ethen nothing. I am interested in a full copy of it (any architektures) but only official Debian CD-Images. I ca

Re: Ubuntu to Debian

2006-01-11 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! Brooks R. Robinson wrote: Greetings oh most knowledgeable list, Now for the question: Can I, without too much heartburn, upgrade my install the Etch or Sid? Is it as simple as changing my sources.list, doing and apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade? I'm sure I'll end

Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)

2006-01-11 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! J.Moore wrote: I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2 kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as possible. I finally located the 2.2 distro on archives.debian.org, but h

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Hodgins Family
Howdy! At 11:48 AM 12/12/2005, Martin Lefebvre wrote: dpkg -i samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb UNCLELEO:~# dpkg -i samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb dpkg: error processing samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb (--install): cannot access archive: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while

Re: Sarge CD Install location problem

2005-12-12 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! I have an old Pentium box, and have two copies of SBM, downloaded at diferent times. ONe of them just gives me the message "SBMK" and gives up. I've had that happen on some of my boxes, too. Never got around to figuring out what the problem was. The other will only read my C

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! Hi, I've downloaded Samba as a .deb file. Is there an easy way for me to install from that? dpkg -i should work. Check the dpkg man pages for exact syntax. Rob P.S. How come you didn't bring it in through apt-get or synaptic or aptitude (just curious!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Sarge CD Install location problem

2005-12-07 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! I have an old pentium box that's a candidate for a sarge install. It has a hdd and a cd. The bios does not detect the cd, and the boot order can only be set to A:/C: or C:/A:. Hence, it cannot be set to boot from the Sarge CD. Smart Boot Manager "might" be a solution. Also cal

Re: Re: Problem running Corel WP

2005-12-06 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! I am using Corel WP Office 2002 But WP is the one I want. I do not like MWord. It will not communicate with the printer and I don't know how to tell George (my computer) to be friends with the printer. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. If I need to buy new sof

Re: does anyone know the status of

2005-12-05 Thread Hodgins Family
Good evening! In the past few days, it seems that http://mail.sinetsrl.it has gone missing. Visiting that web site, that link no longer exists. Any idea what happened? Thanks A login page? Popped right in Opera. I got the login page as well in uh, uh, well, uh.

Re: Color Laser

2005-12-05 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! Hello all, What would be a good chocie in Color Laser Printer for use with Debian ? Thanks in advance. /Lars Go wild, Lars http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Tyan Tomcat i7221A

2005-11-29 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! I'm about to buy 6 boxes with the Tyan Tomcat i7221A mainboard in it. The client wants to run Debian. Now .. I don't know a lot about the hardware support in Debian. Can someone advise me on this? Will this box install with the latest stable install CD? The full specs can be f

Re: Debian 1.3.1 (Bo) ISO files

2005-11-25 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! No 386's here, but I have two 486 SX25's with 8MB memory each and 80MB to 120MB HDs that I have been trying to figure out how to get Debian onto. Some ideas here: http://www.linux.ca/library/linux/minideb.shtml although you would have to strip out some of the apps. Also, this

Re: make an updates CD?

2005-11-22 Thread Hodgins Family
Hey Cameron: (There's also some stuff about Synaptic, whatever that is.) Think of Synaptic as a GUI for apt-get (no flames from purists, please!) That's neater than just copying all the deb files from my apt/archives to his, but it still doesn't get me something I could put on an isofs so

Re: make an updates CD?

2005-11-22 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning: Follow this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=7455&page=1 My friend has installed a sarge workstation from the 14 CDs. With limited dial-up access he can't upgrade it. I would like to make a "disk 15" for him from the contents of my /var/cache/apt/archives. Is there

Re: Your Message To scoug-general

2005-11-15 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! I've a couple of these today. - Original Message - From: "Steward-owner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 6:29 PM Subject: Your Message To scoug-general Your message to the list scoug-general has been rejected. You are not a member of the lis

RE: GRUB & Sarge & Win 98 (Try #2)

2005-11-04 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! Someone's been putting grapefruit juice in my grapefruit juice again! :) I'll just repost with the page reference and hope no one notices...how's that? I just was running a dual boot machine (Sarge & Win 98) nicely when something wrong happened and I got to reinstall Win 98. S

Re: GRUB & Sarge & Win 98

2005-11-04 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! I just was running a dual boot machine (Sarge & Win 98) nicely when something wrong happened and I got to reinstall Win 98. Since that I can`t boot my Debian Gnu/Linux System. So here is my question: -"How do I reinstall Grub in MBR the way I`ll can boot both systems again?"

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? The page is: http://www.movieweb.com/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D6036&e=9797

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon: I think this exchange sparked more discussion than Brendan anticipated. It caught me, that's for sure. Another few benefits of keeping old CPU's going hit me yesterday (after buying a brand new battery for an 80386 motherboard -- the kind you have to solder on!): i) To the sp

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-14 Thread Hodgins Family
Good evening! My pap used to have a set of lights programmed to change in a random way and he kept an ancient box running for many years doing little other than that. Light up, gradually dim, switch off, the whole lot. Classic anti-burglar mechanism jazzed up to make it plausible day after

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-14 Thread Hodgins Family
Hey! Just take them to a recycling center and buy something from this decade used for under 200. Hold on a sec. Why go through all the bother? 1) 200 bucks all at once may not be a feasible outlay. 2) some of the older software may run just fine on the older machines (a newer one won't m

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-14 Thread Hodgins Family
ters are going to be slow! Maybe too slow for you. They could be put to mundane uses such as firewalling for your DSL or for experimentation or keep them for running the software that's already on themmy family still gets a kick out of Chip's Challenge (ca 1993) and Spectre (1992).

Re: Re: Command line reference

2005-10-11 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! Perhaps you'd like this: Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card The 101 most important things when using Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/ Thanks, Ralph! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Command line reference

2005-10-10 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! Have you read the Debian Reference? That's all shell-based. It can be found here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html#contents The document at this site has lots of useful info that I'm not (immediately) interested in. I have bokmarked it, though

Re: Command line reference

2005-10-10 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/commands/ Thanks for this link. Do you know how many of these commands are Debian-specific? Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Command line reference

2005-10-10 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! Any unix, linux book will give you a good hint on posibilities. Many linux books have discussions of rpm related stuff, fewer discuss apt..just to pick on two obvious distinctions. Right now, I'm a Debian guy. I'm studying Debian Linux. For now, I'm only interested in Debian

Re: Command line reference

2005-10-10 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! Easy, on my system there are 3312 (YMMV), just hit tab twice from the CLI :) $ Display all 3312 possibilities? (y or n) OK. That's good. That's a start. And yes, my mileage may vary. It is unlikely that I will have 3312 commands available on my system. That will depend on w

Command line reference

2005-10-10 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! Quick, how many commands are there at the disposal of a CLI enthusiast? Every time some newbie asks how to do this that or something else, along comes a new command "that-was-always-there" but sort of "unknown". Now that's security through obscurity for you! This is not a rant...

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! So in this case, do we hit reply-all, and cut and paste the list email as the To: line, removing all others, etc? I use reply all and then cut out everyone's name leaving only the list address. So far, I haven't annoyed anyone. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-20 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning: simple solution .. use knoppix cd in each PC and you're done > 2. In the centre we do a lot of video editing using Premiere on > window$. > I know some Linux video editing software but the problem is that just > one computer is powerful enough to do the job. If I make cluster o

ClaraOCR

2003-10-17 Thread family
Hi, Does anyone have the clara OCR files? Every link to the files at claraocr.org is dead. I found several other possible links and they turned out to be dead ends too. Ifg anyone has the files, I can give you an ftp address to post them to. I'm working on putting together a new Morphix iso a

unsubscribe

2002-12-10 Thread Family Brown
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Re: bad bios (i think)

2001-05-06 Thread Propper family
Yeah, when I got it it worked OK for a win2k system, then oneday when I booted it up, poof it was pissed.  I was hoping that the problem was just that win2k sux and that putting linux on it would fix it.  Oh well,  I have a new door stop. --Greg   Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I jus

Re: bad bios (i think)

2001-05-06 Thread Propper family
Yeah, when I got it it worked OK for a win2k system, then oneday when I booted it up, poof it was pissed.  I was hoping that the problem was just that win2k sux and that putting linux on it would fix it.  Oh well,  I have a new door stop. --Greg   Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I jus

bad bios (i think)

2001-05-02 Thread Propper family
I just received an old acer pentium 133 to use as my linux box.  Major problem with it is as soon as I turn the damn thing on it fails to go thru BIOS.  It just stares back at me for a minute then displays "keyboard interface error" then after another minute "pointing device error."  I have replace

Problems with dist-upgrade and XFree86

2001-01-30 Thread The Snyder Family
I had been running testing (Woody) for nearly a month without any problems, and then I did an apt-get dist-upgrade last Sunday and things totally botched up with the XFree86. Here's the deal: I have 4 XF86Config files: XF86Config-4 is located in /etc/ and has instructions for XFree86 4 XF86Config

Problem Connecting to ISP...

2000-09-14 Thread Gutierrez Family
Hello,   I'm having trouble connecting to my ISP.  I'm using 'wvdial' to dial in and I've also run 'pppconfig' and entered all the appropriate information.  Basically, I can't do anything after 'wvdial' calls up 'pppd':   --> Sending: (password) Entering PPP Session. IP address is 64.154.14

Getting closer to setting up scanner, but...

2000-09-10 Thread Gutierrez Family
Thanks to those who have helped me so far with setting up my HP ScanJet 5p scanner.  I think I'm almost there, but I'm probably missing one (or a few) last steps...  Here's a summary so far:   From bootup messages, my scanner seems to be detected - OK !:   Sep 8 18:46:54 navi kernel: Vendo

Problem with Linksys LNE100TX NIC

2000-09-09 Thread Gutierrez Family
I bought the Linksys LNE100TX NIC because it claims to be compatible with Linux (and I believe them).  I haven't been too lucky, though.   I downloaded and compiled the latest Tulip driver without errors... successful first step. I compiled the driver as a module (I got errors when compilin

Weird messages after kernel compiling...

2000-09-09 Thread Gutierrez Family
Hi again, everyone.I forgot to mention that after compiling my new kernel, I now get manymodules-related error messages.  If I remember correctly, I did thefollowing:make mrproper (cleaned everything right out)make xconfigmake depmake clean (don't know if this was really necessary, since I'

Error compiling kernel

2000-09-06 Thread Gutierrez Family
Hi everyone,   I tried to re-compile the kernel (to include generic SCSI support for my scanner) and ran into problems.  Here's what I did - as far as I can remember (following the instructions in the README file found in the kernel source directory):   1) logged in as root 1) ran the xconfi

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-03 Thread Gutierrez Family
Success ! Thanks to all who have spent time helping me out. I'm sure that if I had given you the right information from the start, we would've resolved this a while ago. Sure enough, linking /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux was incorrect !! As John pointed out, I really have a serial mouse. When linkin

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-03 Thread Gutierrez Family
s the command to search for a specific filename, including in all subdirectories? -Original Message- From: Eric G . Miller To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, September 02, 2000 11:57 PM Subject: Re: Help with Installation... >On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:32:49PM -0700, Gutierrez Famil

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-03 Thread Gutierrez Family
- From: Eric G . Miller To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, September 02, 2000 4:28 PM Subject: Re: Help with Installation... >On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 04:05:48PM -0700, Gutierrez Family wrote: >> Thank you for responding !! >> >> Quick answers and a few more que

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-02 Thread Gutierrez Family
and possibly xf86setup if you want to use the GUI XF86Setup program. > >So, good news is you have a working system. Bad news is you still have >a little work to do to get everything installed/configured to your >satisfaction. > > >BTW, /dev/mouse would just be a symbolic li

Help with Installation...

2000-09-02 Thread Gutierrez Family
Hello to all,  I apologize in advance for the length of this message...   Today I began the installation of Debian 2.2.  It started out well, the config menus were very user friendly, etc.  It didn't end well, however...  Problems began after selecting the packages to install:   I chose the

installation of debian linux cd on laptop with portable backpack cd rom

1998-12-19 Thread julian, lydia &amp; family taylor
hi I hope that someone can help me out there I know that software called PARIDE has been written for the backpack hardware but I don't know how to use this software in the installation of debian linux - help I have just brought the debian cds and companion cds but I am now stuck Julian Taylor

installing debian

1998-10-25 Thread Corbishley Family
Hi, I downloaded Debian last night and I cant seem to install it. I retrieved it from the net on one machine and I want to install it, by floppy to an old 386 with 4MB ram and 120MB hard disk. I have got through the low mem disk fine (partitioned hard disk into Linux, Linux swap, Minux/Linux).

help!!!!

1997-03-09 Thread Valenzuela Family
I have a 386 laptop that i just installed linux on and I don't know how to print from it and how to automatically mount a floppy. Here is my booth message if anyone can help me. Thank you, Ernesto Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) pci_init: n

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

1997-03-05 Thread Hawkins Family
CoB SysAdmin (Joe Emenaker) wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > > > 1. what do you expect for free? > > > > Well, one would expect at least a clean install... If people perceive > > Linux/Debian as being impossible to install, then, well, they won't use it > > :) > >